I miss you Sam!!

I miss you Sam!!

Thursday, June 25, 2015

Sky Watch

More
beautiful, different weather for us here in Portland, Oregon!!Not that we never have beautiful weather, but
rarely this early and this HOT!!They
are predicting a couple of over 100 degree days for the weekend!!! Now that
feels like Texas to me!!!But it hasn’t
happened yet, so we’ll see!! And, of course, clear skies may be nice, but let’s
face it, they are kind of dull in comparison to clouds and colors we usually
have! So, today’s sky is from a few weeks back and it was lovely!Hope all of you have a wonderful weekend!!
Enjoy!!

I thought we would be coming back to the Northwest for cooler temps, but I hear maybe not (well, we won't actually be there until a week from today, so maybe by then it will have cooled down some). It was 103 here in Florida on several days recently with thunderstorms.

What Can I Say?

I'm interested in almost everything. Use to like to travel, but it's too expensive now. I take Tai Chi classes, swim, volunteer in a Jump-start program for pre-schoolers. I'm an avid reader and like nearly everyone these days I follow politics avidly. I'm a former teacher and Special Projects Coordinator for a Telecommunications company, Assistant to the President of a Japanese silicon wafer manufacturing company. Am now enjoying retirement -- most of the time. I have two daughters, one son-in-law and two sons scattered all over the country. No grandchildren.

Stop Hate Starting Here

I Never Saw Another Butterfly

So richly, brightly, dazzlingly yellowPerhaps if the sun’s tears would singagainst a white stone....

Such, such a yellowIs carried lightly ’way up high.It went away I’m sure because it wished to kiss the world good-bye.

For seven weeks I’ve lived in herePenned up inside this ghetto.But I have found what I love here.The dandelions call to meAnd the white chestnut branches in the court.

Only I never saw another butterfly. That butterfly was the last one.Butterflies don’t live in here, in the ghetto.

Written by Pavel Friedman, June 4, 1942 Born in Prague on Jan. 7, 1921.Deported to the Terezin Concentration Camp on April 26, 1942. Died in Aushchwitzon Sept. 29, 1944.

Thank You, Anthony!!

Check out his blog and photos!

Chasing Ashes

I love to write and it has been a hobby for a long time. Mysteries were always my escape reading during some of the darker times of my life and I finally decided to give it a try. I've actually written seven over the years. Unfortunately, my last computer disaster resulted in my losing three of the latest four. I did manage to salvage this one.